Women’s Grievance

The status and the position of women in society is the best way to understand a civilization, its progress and its shortcomings. In India, women are gracing various positions like in the armed force, IT sector, politics industry, academics balancing the role as a daughter, wife and mother. While all these are positive developments, harassment at workplace is rampant. To facilitate speedy delivery of justice to women, Women’s Grievance Committee has been constituted. This committee will have following functions towards female students, teaching and non-teaching women staff of the institute:1. To prevent sexual harassment and to promote the general well-being2. To provide appropriate working conditions in respect of work, leisure, health, and hygiene.3. To ensure that there is no hostile environment toward women at work places.4. To provide guidelines for the redressal of grievances related to sexual harassment of women. Keeping in view the directions and guidelines issued by National Commission for Women, New Delhi, University Grants Commission, New Delhi and State Government, Lokseva College of Pharmacy has constituted Women’s Grievance Committee to hear and decide grievances of women about sexual harassment at work place and also authorized the said committee to frame the rules relating to complaints and grievances of women. It will be duty of the Women’s Grievance Committee to prevent sexual harassment and to promote the general well-being, to provide appropriate working conditions in respect of work, leisure, health, and hygiene and to provide guidelines for the redressal of grievances related to sexual harassment of women.